Nigeria league star of the week: Happy Okuoka

Heartland’s Happy Okuoka has emerged the MTNFootball.com top star for the Nigeria league Week 5 for his brace in a 4-0 demolition of Gombe.

Okuoka was rated ahead of Gambo Mohammed (Kano Pillars), Akor Isah (Heartland) and Alaba Johnson (Wikki Tourists). Happy is playing only his first season in the league and has thus far made a statement with his Owerri team.

“I am enjoying my game. I am happy and thank God I scored against Gombe. I won’t promise or target any number of goals I want to score. I just want to keep playing well and scoring goals,” Happy told MTNFootball.com.

Okuoka, who almost joined a Turkish club but opted to stay back at Heartland to gain first-team experience, said he admires Mikel Obi, while his role model is Thiery Henry.

“I love Mikel, I admire him, love his calmness on the ball. But my role model is Thiery Henry. He is a complete striker I wish to be like,” he revealed.

“I support and like Arsenal. This is a team I would want to play for.”